Captive Negress Carpeaux

Why being born a slave? - Carpeaux

RF005715
Reproduction patinated by hand. Mould made from an imprint of the original work.

In 1867, Carpeaux received from the city of Paris the order for the observatory's fountain, the imposed subject, the four cardinal points. He found the idea of figures spinning around thinking about the rotation of the...
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Characteristics

Dimensions
35 x 23 x 21 cm
Material of the original work
Terre cuite
Artist
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875)
Material
Resin
Maintenance
Ne pas exposer à une source de chaleur directe. Nettoyage : chiffon doux et sec
Museums
Musée d'Orsay, Petit Palais Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris
Theme
Women
Art movement
19th century
Reference
RF005715
EAN
3336727445976
Conservation museum
Paris - Musée d'Orsay

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The work and its artist

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (1827-1875)

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, son of a mason and a lacemaker from Valenciennes, built an exceptional destiny closely linked to the "imperial feast" of Napoleon III's reign. The one who stood out sharply in the artistic world of his time is also one of the most perfect incarnations of the cursed artist's romantic idea: by the brevity and dazzling nature of his career, concentrated over a period of fifteen years, by the violence and passion of relentless hard work on the subjects he chose or commissioned (the Pavillon de Flore du Louvre, La Danse pour l'opéra de Charles Garnier).